{"id":6855,"date":"2025-09-12T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:06:36","slug":"kitchen-tip-handy-tomato-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/kitchen-tip-handy-tomato-paste\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Tip: Handy Tomato Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might have seen the recipe for Creamy Mexican Dressing<\/a><\/span><\/strong> in the previous post. It calls for 1 Tbsp. of tomato paste. Sometimes I dread seeing that in an ingredient listing. Because can I tell you how many times I have opened a can of tomato paste, used a tablespoon or two, put the rest in the fridge, vowed to use it up in the next few days–and then found it all moldy in the back of the fridge a few weeks later!<\/p>\n

Now, however, I don’t mind when a recipe calls for just a little tomato paste, because happily, I found this trick to prevent food and money waste.<\/p>\n

First, plop spoonfuls of tomato paste on a freezer proof dish, leaving space between each spoonful. Freeze until solid.<\/p>\n

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Next, remove frozen paste and let thaw for just a minute or two. Immediately remove with a metal spatula and put in a glass jar. Return to the freezer promptly so spoonfuls can’t melt and stick together. Then it will be quick and handy to pull out a small portion of paste.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy your Mexican Dressing–or any other recipe with just a little tomato paste!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might have seen the recipe for Creamy Mexican Dressing in the previous post. It calls for 1 Tbsp. of tomato paste. Sometimes I dread seeing that in an ingredient listing. Because can I tell you how many times I have opened a can of tomato paste, used a tablespoon or two, put the rest … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22,26],"tags":[880],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-set-up-a-healthy-pantry","category-healthy-cooking-money-savers","category-time-saving-tips-for-healthy-cooking","tag-how-to-store-extra-tomato-paste","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6860,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/6860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}